Thomas T. Munford

Thomas Taylor Munford (29 March 1831-27 February 1918) was a Confederate States Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War.

Biography
Thomas Taylor Munford was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1831, and he graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1852. He worked as a cotton planter in Mississippi and a farmer in Bedford County, Virginia before the American Civil War broke out in 1861, upon which he joined the Confederate States Army. He became a cavalry colonel, fighting at the First Battle of Bull Run before succeeding Turner Ashby as commander of all of Stonewall Jackson's cavalry after Ashby's death during the 1862 Valley Campaign. Munford went on to fight in the Maryland campaign in 1862, at the Battle of Gettysburg, and during the Overland Campaign, and he took command of Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry division later in the war. His men escaped from the encirclement at Appomattox and attempted to join Joseph E. Johnston's army in North Carolina in April 1865, but, after Johnston surrendered, Munford dispersed his men near Lynchburg. After the war, he worked as a cotton planter in Alabama and Virginia, and he died at his son's home in Uniontown, Alabama in 1918 at the age of 86.